Here is an image I made using the tutorial by Kawliga posted at the Paint Shop Pro Users Group in the tutorials section. The tutorial is how to make a stained glass image. Now this tutorial uses black and white line art. Here I have added an interseting and fun twist. Now I have an advantage in that leaded glass is one of my hobbies.
I made a large image using Bryce3d and a lighthouse tube and some PSP airbrushing.
I enlarged it to 300x300, original was 200x200. Now following Kaliga's methos, I copied the background in the layer paletteand made it invisible. Added a new layer, and toggled the layer into the middle between the background layer and the copy of the background layer. Now, rather than using the magic wand too for selecting, I used the lasso tool and selected the parts of the shadows , rainbow, sky, lighthouse, water... and added the appropriate glass colors, layer by layer. Now I had the image without the black lines. I merged the entire image. Using the line tool, set at black and 5 pixels round brush size, antialias, I added lines, keeping in mind the difficulty of cutting glass and not making them too curvy. I added a 5 pixel black border. Now using the wand tool set at antialias and tolerance5, I selected the black parts, took it to Blade Pro with the preset soelead. Now I added a 20 pixel border, color light yellow, selected again with wand, took to blade pro with the preset My Oak. Used inner bevel, and viola, had a frame! Lastly for a cool lighting effect I used spotlight in my Graphics Plus filters.
Do try this at home, you can do it with most any simple picture!
